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Re:Why I stopped reading HN (2010) by dang on Thursday October 08, 2020 @04:23PM (#24723498)
My current thought about how to fix this is to have a link called 'parent' or 'up' next to each comment timestamp. Clicking on it would scroll you one level up. Disadvantage: you'd have to click it once for each level you want to go up. Advantage: it's simpler than any alternative I know of.

What percentage of this problem would that fix?

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Re:Why I stopped reading HN (2010) by RubenvanE on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:11PM (#24724481)
This is an interesting idea! The problem is that you regularly get 8+ levels deep, so that's a lot of clicks. Maybe two buttons (for parent and for top-level parent) might do the trick?
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Re:Why I stopped reading HN (2010) by dang on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:30PM (#24724629)
That's a good suggestion—thanks. Maybe 'parent' and 'top', or 'up' and 'top'.
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